Jaylon Campos, 8, and Brendon Cuevas, 11, test to see if their model works at Follow Me Robot summer camp, June 26, 2017. The students worked in a team of two to build a model and connect it to a remote control.(Photo: DeJanay Booth/Current-Argus)Buy Photo

Students also built models on Monday and connected them to remote controls.

"It unlocks the engineer part of their brains, learn new concepts and make learning fun," said camp instructor Tawnya Snowden.

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Follow Me Robot is an afternoon STEM camp is for students ages 7-12. The camp is hosted by Sciensational this week. Another STEM camp, organized by the same group, is hosted is in the morning.(Photo: DeJanay Booth/Current-Argus)

Snowden, who is a teacher with Carlsbad Municipal Schools, said the students will spend all week building a robot and will test them on the last day of camp.

She first instructed through Sciensational three years ago, and said the week-long event helps promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) among children.

"They're not just doing math, they're not just doing science," she said. "It's exciting."